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by czhiddy 3y ago
Roughly double the amount of pixels = "slightly higher resolution"?
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Google nixes paying out rest of medical leave for laid-off employees(cnbc.com)
98 points by czhiddy 4y ago|145 comments
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Google is reportedly cracking down employee travel and team meetups(businessinsider.com)
6 points by czhiddy 4y ago|0 comments
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by czhiddy 4y ago
I mean, the other poster "guaranteed" it, so I don't know who to believe here.
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by czhiddy 5y ago
$1M in W2 earnings isn't that unusual for senior engineers at companies that have seen significant stock growth. Suppose you had a $200k salary, $500k RSUs over four years, $50k/year bonus offer mid-2017. The last batch of stock v
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by czhiddy 5y ago
By that logic, WebUSB is a bug specific to Blink-based browsers, since it doesn't work on anything else?
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by czhiddy 6y ago
I was looking forward to seeing some of the games that would have only been possible on Stadia's architecture. Imagine a Battlefield-style game with a larger map and over 500+ simultaneous players. Hopefully the games that SG&E do
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by czhiddy 6y ago
OP: "In-N-Out is my favorite fast food restaurant." You: "No, you're wrong."
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by czhiddy 6y ago
The stark difference in the response to these "protests" vs the DC BLM protests: https://twitter.com/RedR1dngHood/status/1346908557560537091
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by czhiddy 6y ago
Those 2000+ scores are from hobbyist enthusiasts overclocking the Zen 3 CPUs, with elaborate liquid nitrogen cooling setups at the highest scores. Stock Zen3 single core scores average around 1650: https://browser.geekbench.com&#
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by czhiddy 6y ago
If Apple has a monopoly on the iOS App Store market, then it follows that Epic has a monopoly on the Fortnite add-on market, right?
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by czhiddy 6y ago
If 16GB of memory isn't enough to run a text editor or glorified IRC client, then the problem is probably the horribly bloated software.
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by czhiddy 7y ago
Proper wide-gamut colorspace support has been around on macOS since 2015: https://webkit.org/blog/6682/improving-color-on-the-web/
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by czhiddy 8y ago
What makes you think this was the first audit? Shipping a bug doesn't imply that zero QA was done.
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by czhiddy 10y ago
“The difference with this device is that we started from the beginning,” says Dave Burke, who runs Android engineering. Started from scratch, yet the end result looks like a iPhone knockoff from a random Chinese shanzhai company? http:&#x2
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iPhone 7 Display Technology Shoot-Out(displaymate.com)
1 points by czhiddy 10y ago|0 comments
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Uber is in the sub-prime auto business(houstonchronicle.com)
1 points by czhiddy 10y ago|0 comments
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Google is letting celebrities and businesses post directly to search results(theverge.com)
1 points by czhiddy 11y ago|0 comments
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by czhiddy 11y ago
For software engineering at least, any of the big companies here (FB/GOOG/AAPL/LNKD/TWTR/etc) will easily pay $150k+ for someone with 9 years of experience. If you perform well the first year or two, your yearly RSU
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The Former and Current Employees (FACE) of Amazon(sites.google.com)
3 points by czhiddy 11y ago|0 comments
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by czhiddy 11y ago
How is Firefox crashing an Apple issue, assuming you don't hit the same problems with Chrome?
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by czhiddy 11y ago
> I don't see anything unbelievable or even particularly unusual. Let's go back in time to a point when Apple's #'s roughly matched Googles. https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/10&#x2F
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by czhiddy 11y ago
I have a friend who works at Lab126 with some really interesting stories about the dysfunctional environment there. He's basically one of a handful or so engineers who have more than a 4 year tenure in his division. Their PMs are basic
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by czhiddy 11y ago
If you add in the same comparison to Facebook's numbers, the valuations look even more puzzling (using the most recent quarter): * Apple's quarterly revenue: $75.9b * Apple's quarterly profit: $18.4b * Apple's market cap
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by czhiddy 11y ago
> The only problem with making this argument for Apple specifically is that their stock price seems to figure in revolutionizing an industry every few years. Not really. http://financials.morningstar.com/valuation/pr
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by czhiddy 11y ago
Wall Street usually has wildly unrealistic expectations for Apple, so expect this modest beat to be spun as a significant miss.
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by czhiddy 12y ago
I've heard my chip designer friend mention in passing that the "Chinese wall" between the Samsung fab group and the Samsung design groups is occasionally porous.
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Sarah Slocum: the infamous face of Google Glass(sfgate.com)
2 points by czhiddy 12y ago|0 comments
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by czhiddy 13y ago
The iPad4 doesn't pack an A7. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_A6X
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by czhiddy 13y ago
"Google is particularly proud of the lack of any visible vents, screws or speakers." "Google uses the bottom plate as a heat spreader with a bit of thermal interface material making direct contact to the Exynos 5250 SoC.&quot

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